Line Lariat - Houston

We arrived for the reservation and no one was there to seat us. The restaurant portion was completely dim. We then ordered a grilled mushroom with blue crab appetizer, and the mushrooms tasted almost raw, like they were merely heated up a few minutes before serving. A grilled mushroom should not be white, right? Then I get the menu is more expensive because it is in a hotel, but $27 for chicken breast with tomatoes and broccoli is a little much. I’ve heard they have great bar bites, so that may have been a better option than the restaurant experience.

This was our first time eating here. It was very quiet, most of the other patrons were seated at the bar. The waitstaff was very attentive without being overbearing. When they didn't have my choice for dinner, the chef made a recommendation for another item that was off the menu that he would substitute; it was amazing! We will definitely be going back!

I am furious over our experience at Line and Lariat, and I don 't know whether to be more mad at the restaurant or Open Table. A full month ahead of time, I made a reservation at Line and Lariat for Easter lunch or brunch when we couldn 't get a table at our usual Brennan 's or Brenner 's. When you check this restaurant on Open Table, the dinner menu comes up, and it looks pretty interesting--lots of Texas seafood. The pictures of the place looked pretty online, so we thought, Why not? Understand that Easter brunch is a big deal to us--we like to splurge and have a really nice meal, especially when we have our grandson with us, which we did. I even mentioned on our reservation that it was for Easter brunch. So, we show up at the appointed time after church, and the place looks absolutely deserted. Finally a waiter showed up and we told him we had a reservation. He said there were no managers and they took no reservations, and furthermore, there was no Easter brunch or lunch other than the very limited normal lunch menu. Bless his heart--he could see we were confused and upset, and scooted two tables together (still adorned with last night 's crumbs! . He made me a mimosa himself since there was no bartender, and I needed one! At this point, it was past one--we were all hungry, and there was little chance of getting a meal anywhere else. My grandson and I had a bowl of chili and everyone else had grilled cheese and tomato soup for Easter brunch. We might as well have gone to a coffee shop. We 're not shallow enough to think this was the end of the world, but we were sadly misled. Why does Open Table take reservations for Easter brunch for this place if the restaurant had no plans to have an Easter brunch? FURTHERMORE, I accidentally favorited this place and now I can 't unfavor it! Bad experience all around.

I would not recommend the restaurant for anything. After I booked I read the reviews and was disappointed as we have stayed at the hotel several times, just never eaten there and thought the restaurant was in basement, we got there and it is an extension of the bar. We were there for almost 2 hours and there was NOT 1 other guest there, just my husband and I and after we were served we never saw waiter or actually he may have been the host never came back. The food was good, but extremely overpriced for what we received. Plate of grits and 4 small pieces of beef tenderloin for $43. My husband ordered the fish which was very fishy tasting and if someone had come to wait on us, we would have returned it. Terrible evening out on our anniversary!!

The problem with this restaurant had nothing to do with the food! Actually, the food was pretty decent, my family and I could just not enjoy it because of the lack of attention and horrible service from the staff! I get we were staying in the hotel and had a comp breakfast, but we were prepared to leave a generous tip for great service and possibly order drinks from the bar. The servers and staff could not be bothered with us and there were only two other tables in the restaurant for Sunday brunch! We went to order omelettes at the breakfast buffet and as we walked up we were told they wouldn't serve us because they were already breaking down. After much discussion, they finally agreed to make the omelettes in the kitchen for us.